Young Alumnus Award Given to Richard Addante, PhD, '11

Richard Addante, PhD, winner of the Young Achievement Award for the Cal Aggie Alumni Awards, 2019

December 04, 2018

Posted by Suzette Smiley-Jewell

This year’s UC Davis Young Alumnus Award winner Richard Addante Ph.D. ’11 – only seven years out from graduating with a PhD in Neurosciecne – is already the only psychologist to participate in a NASA simulation mission to Mars. During the mission, his team helped develop NASA’s understanding of challenges that may arise for humans confined together in a long mission.

“Everything I’ve accomplished has been with hard work and good graces, with the intention of helping people,” Addante explains. “It looks like I do all of these things, but anything that I have been fortunate to do is contingent upon a team of supporters, fellow Aggies, UC Davis faculty, coworkers and more.”